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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground The efficient allocation of financial resources for malaria control using appropriate combinations of interventions requires accurate information on the geographic distribution of malaria risk. An...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince our launch in October 2004, PLoS Medicine has published a policy and review section dedicated to neglected diseases. Its focus has been on the chronic tropical infections, mostly parasitic and bacterial, that...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Debates exist as to whether, as overall population health improves, the absolute and relative magnitude of income- and race/ethnicity-related health disparities necessarily increase--or derease. We...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMark Levine, Ben Adida, Kenneth Mandl, Isaac Kohane, John Halamka Correction for: Levine M, Adida B, Mandl K, Kohane I, Halamka J (2007) What are the benefits and risks of fitting patients with radiofrequency...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMyelodysplasia (MDS) is a clonal hematopoietic malignancy as stubborn in revealing its pathogenesis as it is in responding to treatment. The disease presents with cytopenia of any or all of the three hematopoietic...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground The introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the early 1990s profoundly changed the face of HIV infection by improving survival rates [1]. But ART has equal potential for prevention, since it...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed
An erythroid differentiation signature predicts response to lenalidomide in myelodysplastic syndrome
Background Lenalidomide is an effective new agent for the treatment of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), an acquired hematopoietic disorder characterized by ineffective blood cell production and a... - 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Noroviruses are the leading cause of viral acute gastroenteritis in humans, noted for causing epidemic outbreaks in communities, the military, cruise ships, hospitals, and assisted living communities. The...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedParaquat is a contact herbicide (one that kills plants by contact rather than being taken up in the roots and acting systemically) that is extensively used in agriculture, as it is fast-acting and non-persistent in the...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPathology is quality control--it confirms, refutes, or elaborates on clinical diagnoses. Globally, the most important fatal condition for which there is a lack of autopsy evaluation is maternal death. One reason for...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe incidence of tick-borne diseases has drastically increased over the past few years [1,2], resulting in a marked increase in research on tick-host-pathogen interactions. As a result, the knowledge on molecules...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Maternal mortality is a major health problem concentrated in resource-poor regions. Accurate data on its causes using rigorous methods is lacking, but is essential to guide policymakers and health...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Since 1998 the serious public health problem in South East Asia of counterfeit artesunate, containing no or subtherapeutic amounts of the active antimalarial ingredient, has led to deaths from untreated...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground to the debate: Demographic surveillance--the process of monitoring births, deaths, causes of deaths, and migration in a population over time--is one of the cornerstones of public health research, particularly...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Obesity is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is associated with high medical expenditures. It has been suggested that obesity prevention could result in cost savings. The objective of this study...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground In the absence of an effective vaccine, HIV continues to spread globally, emphasizing the need for novel strategies to limit its transmission. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretroviral drugs...
- 18From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLinguistically speaking, the predominant viral cause of gastroenteritis has been evolving. Once evocatively called winter vomiting disease, the pathogen's name has changed alongside improved scientific understanding....
- 19From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn a study in this issue of PLoS Medicine, Pieter van Baal and colleagues used data from The Netherlands to simulate the annual and lifetime medical costs attributable to obesity [1]. They also compared these costs to...
- 20From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the early part of the twentieth century, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, decimated the population in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. In the 1930s, the colonial administrations,...